[R] Finding the common portion of strings

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> R: 2.12.2
> OS X
>
> I have a set of text objects in the form (I am showing 3 of what is more likely to be 20 or so):
>        OBJECTS <- c("abcSOMETHINGCOMMONegf", "xSOMETHINGCOMMONyz", "SOMETHINGCOMMONnme")
>
> As you can see, all contain "SOMETHINGCOMMON" and the position varies.  But, I don't know what that "SOMETHINGCOMMON" is.
>
> Is there an efficient means to find the common string of characters between all of the objects?
>

See:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-November/117379.html

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